additionally to my post down here I'd like to strengthen this fact by pointing you right here where it happens also in different sectors.
The Internet might be good and open and all that, but still there is a lot to change before society -demands- anything to be of better quality worth for its money. There are different magazines, in my country (Belgium) we have "Test Aankoop"; I'm not member of it and even think I'm too high-demanding towards quality for my money (except when it's not frequent used or temporary).
Maybe there are sites around which discuss these matters but still I did not find enough about the problems I have been experiencing with the Benelux market of equipment around here. The market is overpromoting itself with products which do-more for less-money but often people forget also for less-quality.
This has on the other hand, to do with production costs and cheap component usage; it's a never ending vicious circle which the market is also taking its finest share of. Either people stop voting with their wallets or the market will segment itself with throw-away devices creating diverse new mountains (of trash) all over the world. So many problems caused by such small amounts of numbers on a special designed piece of paper. I can write lots more what I think about the current throw-away-stuff-society; but I'd probably bore you all out with it *smile*...
I guess fast-food and fast-shopping are cross linked to eachother...
.. why ?.. because there IS a change in electronics. I have to crosscheck doubletime before I know (not for sure) that I'm buying crappy or good equipment. I got plenty of examples of old-electronics that are still working around my house and similar newer-electronics which are dying all the time just because it's more compact and looks newer. In most of the cases it was also cheaper electronics (inside).
I tend to see to the characteristics of the product. If the device comes +/- from the same year I check for the specifications. If the specifications are TOO good to be true, I will look at this product carefully with doubt. If the specs are normal; I'd put it on top of the list. There is in no way a DVD manufacturer can add plentoria of new options without loosing some of the quality of the device; unless this quality gets charged for; alas you get an expensive device.
The price sometimes tells truth; although not in every case. If you are going to pay more for your television it might be that television will last longer than the cheaper version. I still got a Sony TV which is 16yrs old and a Hoher which died already 3 times and is not even 3yrs old. Both prices were very similar; although the specifications of the Hoher were quite broad; more than the CPU in the television can handle even.
The Sony costed me 17.000Bef (it's that old!) while the Hoher costed me 300 euros which is roughly 12.000Bef. The difference was for sure to notice in both price and quality. That's about 100 euro difference for a BIG difference in quality! I knew it would be less in quality but if I'd knew it was going to be *THAT* bad I would never have bought the television but it's in my house now...
A lot of people buy a cat-in-a-bag; they listen to those salesdrones on the second floor showing the loudness of the newest hi-fi tower you want to buy; telling you the newest gadgets on the equipment missing the quality part on how the equipment has been built up.
Check your specs before you check-out your wallet!
This is not only for audio-video equipment but also for toasters, laundrymats, fridges, microwaves, writable cd's,...
here is more info about SLS and it's presence in shampoo's and others. Like the climate and tobacco the beauty industry will sure not go open publically about dangers in their own products...
I had similar experiences with HP. I am very selective in which I buy. I buy double-time with my mind first before I will open my wallet.
The 4MV was marvelous and the 3P was good (one of my first personal printers). The product lines still stay stable somewhat. If you select very carefully you will still get a very good branded printer out of the dozens. Society pays it toll with throw-away appliances which fail after 2-4 years of heavy usage.
A TV is not like it used to be 10 years ago. A Sony was good quality while most televisions now are made with worse quality, save spacing and so restricted with pioneer technology most has to fail in such class of devices. My Sony still works, it's 15 years old, it has 6 inputs including 3 SCARTS; it costed some money that time but it was worth it. Now-a-days you got to select very carefully which to buy because you get screwed where you stand at.
Laptops have similar experiences with the companies...
Compaq; they had very good LTE series, then the Armada series came out and everything was blasted. They merged with HP and had a Compaq EVO serie were even more crappy. Never needed customer service until the devices kept failing on me and I can say with total honesty that laptop gets only used when needed and does normally not move location unless there is an emergency.
The problems I have had since HP came in were troublesome; the Armada had overheating, connector and lcd-transformer problems. The EVO was a total disaster with overheating, it needed to be cleaned every year at Compaq to have a rendable way of working with it. It crashed multiple times; every time it went into "meltdown" mode it destroyed the CD (drive) with it. The second laptop which was for an employee of us had similar problems but was slightly less used than within my realms. It took HP 2 f*ck*ng years before it was really FIXED and acknowledged that the laptops had some """"minor"""" issues. *laughing out loud* The list was 2 pages long, don't get me even started or I get migraines again, suicide attempts, high usage on alcohol and totally depressed using their equipment;) [1]
Well, the problem is solved by an Apple Powerbook ; this thing just works. No further comments.
It's a never ending battle; whenever I buy my servers I will do my market research; I will have to see them and see their organs, else I will not buy. Why? Quality gets mostly recognized; compatibility and rendability is certified mostly, Linux works on almost anything you can imagine and you won't buy a cat-in-a-box.
To get back to the printer.. Look at the outside, look to the specifications, compare everything; most printers are the same quality (but with a lower price; branding costs money). There are brands like Kyocera Mita that are quite worthwhile to look at, but still, HP has some good selections but you have to compare, observe and relativate and wellllll... pay..
ps:
[1] Note the sarcasm. I guess they got it right..
- "PC users swear at their PC; Apple users swear by their Mac"
my problem is fixed for that, I won't have any problems with that particular phone 'coz I won't buy it in the first place:D I'll stick with my Nokia 6310i I guess.... with replacable battery.. even my Nokia 6210 battery fits in it.
It requires specialised people to change such gas tank
It doesn't need to be replaced as often as a battery
The battery in a phone is one of the most important things; look at the "standby" and "talktime" you have on each phone as feature
A battery dies lots faster and is mission critical if you want to use your phone. Try to talk without battery?
Which phones are out there where you cannot change your own battery? Haven't seen any of them yet or maybe I'm just not interested having the technology-du-jour and I buy with my brains and not with my tv-or-wallet.
In all 13 phones I've had I had only one phone dying on the electronics; but that after it fell in a canal. The battery life dies first in most of the times.
I just bought myself an older 2600DTN second hand ; it worked immediately under CUPS and my current 4MV printerdrivers; I sure do praise HP printers; not Compaq or HP workstations but that's another aisle. If I have to choose between any brand printer it'll be HP first, because they just work. Only had problems with the 4500DTN serie because of overconsumption in toners and drums.
Not to mention the different problems I had with other brands like Kyocera Mita, Brother, Lexmark and others because of all the bling-bling on them devices.
If they run around with their hands forwards yelling braaaaaaiiiins all the time; the LED light will be the least of your concerns; Unless you are blonde and dumb you'll have no problem at all since the brain is missing.
i_like_spam writes "Recent commentary at Nature Climate Change describes an on-going debate about the energy savings associated with the reading of their latest NCC article. A back of the envelope calculation has suggested energy savings of 750 Megawatt hours per year if people would not read this article. In response, this endless discussion was created. However, other calculations by the Wall Street Journal suggest minimal energy savings."
You ever tought about Ghonnoroe, Syphilis, HPV, Chlamydia, Hepatitis etc.. ?
Loose the condoms and it'll sure get -lots- easier on you to get those ones in your system; some are quite lethal after some time! So don't loose the rubber puppets too fast or get burned...
Euh.. train crashes still happen; but.. the back of the train will probably be safest with frontal crashes and crashes won't be so fatal because you don't have to worry so much about the gravity...
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additionally to my post down here I'd like to strengthen this fact by pointing you right here where it happens also in different sectors.
...
...
The Internet might be good and open and all that, but still there is a lot to change before society -demands- anything to be of better quality worth for its money. There are different magazines, in my country (Belgium) we have "Test Aankoop"; I'm not member of it and even think I'm too high-demanding towards quality for my money (except when it's not frequent used or temporary).
Maybe there are sites around which discuss these matters but still I did not find enough about the problems I have been experiencing with the Benelux market of equipment around here. The market is overpromoting itself with products which do-more for less-money but often people forget also for less-quality.
This has on the other hand, to do with production costs and cheap component usage; it's a never ending vicious circle which the market is also taking its finest share of. Either people stop voting with their wallets or the market will segment itself with throw-away devices creating diverse new mountains (of trash) all over the world. So many problems caused by such small amounts of numbers on a special designed piece of paper. I can write lots more what I think about the current throw-away-stuff-society; but I'd probably bore you all out with it *smile*
I guess fast-food and fast-shopping are cross linked to eachother
.. why ? .. because there IS a change in electronics. I have to crosscheck doubletime before I know (not for sure) that I'm buying crappy or good equipment. I got plenty of examples of old-electronics that are still working around my house and similar newer-electronics which are dying all the time just because it's more compact and looks newer. In most of the cases it was also cheaper electronics (inside).
...
...
I tend to see to the characteristics of the product. If the device comes +/- from the same year I check for the specifications. If the specifications are TOO good to be true, I will look at this product carefully with doubt. If the specs are normal; I'd put it on top of the list. There is in no way a DVD manufacturer can add plentoria of new options without loosing some of the quality of the device; unless this quality gets charged for; alas you get an expensive device.
The price sometimes tells truth; although not in every case. If you are going to pay more for your television it might be that television will last longer than the cheaper version. I still got a Sony TV which is 16yrs old and a Hoher which died already 3 times and is not even 3yrs old. Both prices were very similar; although the specifications of the Hoher were quite broad; more than the CPU in the television can handle even.
The Sony costed me 17.000Bef (it's that old!) while the Hoher costed me 300 euros which is roughly 12.000Bef. The difference was for sure to notice in both price and quality. That's about 100 euro difference for a BIG difference in quality! I knew it would be less in quality but if I'd knew it was going to be *THAT* bad I would never have bought the television but it's in my house now
A lot of people buy a cat-in-a-bag; they listen to those salesdrones on the second floor showing the loudness of the newest hi-fi tower you want to buy; telling you the newest gadgets on the equipment missing the quality part on how the equipment has been built up.
Check your specs before you check-out your wallet!
This is not only for audio-video equipment but also for toasters, laundrymats, fridges, microwaves, writable cd's,
even more difficult to find soap which containing live-bacteria...
here is more info about SLS and it's presence in shampoo's and others.
..
Like the climate and tobacco the beauty industry will sure not go open publically about dangers in their own products...
Take with a grain of salt but be warned?
... if you are being so open about it.
There goes my porn collection dream into pieces - thanks alot for making me sterile!
Whoever has modded these subliminal blocker-lenses informative should be controlled immediately and report at hangar 52! thanks!
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This won't hurt a bit... I promise
... to see life imitate art...
.. Add some brown noise so they'll shit themselves to heaven
4) World profits
I had similar experiences with HP. I am very selective in which I buy. I buy double-time with my mind first before I will open my wallet.
;) [1]
.. Look at the outside, look to the specifications, compare everything; most printers are the same quality (but with a lower price; branding costs money). There are brands like Kyocera Mita that are quite worthwhile to look at, but still, HP has some good selections but you have to compare, observe and relativate and wellllll ... pay ..
;)
The 4MV was marvelous and the 3P was good (one of my first personal printers). The product lines still stay stable somewhat. If you select very carefully you will still get a very good branded printer out of the dozens. Society pays it toll with throw-away appliances which fail after 2-4 years of heavy usage.
A TV is not like it used to be 10 years ago. A Sony was good quality while most televisions now are made with worse quality, save spacing and so restricted with pioneer technology most has to fail in such class of devices. My Sony still works, it's 15 years old, it has 6 inputs including 3 SCARTS; it costed some money that time but it was worth it. Now-a-days you got to select very carefully which to buy because you get screwed where you stand at.
Laptops have similar experiences with the companies...
Compaq; they had very good LTE series, then the Armada series came out and everything was blasted. They merged with HP and had a Compaq EVO serie were even more crappy. Never needed customer service until the devices kept failing on me and I can say with total honesty that laptop gets only used when needed and does normally not move location unless there is an emergency.
The problems I have had since HP came in were troublesome; the Armada had overheating, connector and lcd-transformer problems. The EVO was a total disaster with overheating, it needed to be cleaned every year at Compaq to have a rendable way of working with it. It crashed multiple times; every time it went into "meltdown" mode it destroyed the CD (drive) with it. The second laptop which was for an employee of us had similar problems but was slightly less used than within my realms. It took HP 2 f*ck*ng years before it was really FIXED and acknowledged that the laptops had some """"minor"""" issues. *laughing out loud* The list was 2 pages long, don't get me even started or I get migraines again, suicide attempts, high usage on alcohol and totally depressed using their equipment
Well, the problem is solved by an Apple Powerbook ; this thing just works. No further comments.
It's a never ending battle; whenever I buy my servers I will do my market research; I will have to see them and see their organs, else I will not buy. Why? Quality gets mostly recognized; compatibility and rendability is certified mostly, Linux works on almost anything you can imagine and you won't buy a cat-in-a-box.
To get back to the printer
ps:
[1] Note the sarcasm. I guess they got it right..
- "PC users swear at their PC; Apple users swear by their Mac"
I again had too much time on my hands
my problem is fixed for that, I won't have any problems with that particular phone 'coz I won't buy it in the first place :D I'll stick with my Nokia 6310i I guess.. .. with replacable battery .. even my Nokia 6210 battery fits in it.
Haven't seen any of them yet or maybe I'm just not interested having the technology-du-jour and I buy with my brains and not with my tv-or-wallet.
Or be more wise with your material?
In all 13 phones I've had I had only one phone dying on the electronics; but that after it fell in a canal.
The battery life dies first in most of the times.
I just bought myself an older 2600DTN second hand ; it worked immediately under CUPS and my current 4MV printerdrivers; I sure do praise HP printers; not Compaq or HP workstations but that's another aisle. If I have to choose between any brand printer it'll be HP first, because they just work. Only had problems with the 4500DTN serie because of overconsumption in toners and drums.
Not to mention the different problems I had with other brands like Kyocera Mita, Brother, Lexmark and others because of all the bling-bling on them devices.
If they run around with their hands forwards yelling braaaaaaiiiins all the time; the LED light will be the least of your concerns;
Unless you are blonde and dumb you'll have no problem at all since the brain is missing.
i_like_spam writes
"Recent commentary at Nature Climate Change describes an on-going debate about the energy savings associated with the reading of their latest NCC article. A back of the envelope calculation has suggested energy savings of 750 Megawatt hours per year if people would not read this article. In response, this endless discussion was created. However, other calculations by the Wall Street Journal suggest minimal energy savings."
how sixties...
You should already be steamed up for that!
You ever tought about Ghonnoroe, Syphilis, HPV, Chlamydia, Hepatitis etc.. ?
...
Loose the condoms and it'll sure get -lots- easier on you to get those ones in your system;
some are quite lethal after some time! So don't loose the rubber puppets too fast or get burned
Euh .. train crashes still happen; but .. the back of the train will probably be safest with frontal crashes and crashes won't be so fatal because you don't have to worry so much about the gravity...
Enjoy your train ride!
It would have been a dupe ;)
Netcraft didn't confirm it yet
Where do you see these "surface mount crimp style electrolytic caps" ?
...
Or do you mean these perhaps? Which are not caps
1963 called, they want their patent back.
yep, it's very insecure because the unsafe mechanism in Vista is not safe !